Do drivers reduce their headway to a lead vehicle because of the presence of platoons in traffic? A conformity study conducted within a simulator

IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 230-235

  Gouy, Magali ^a   Diels, Cyriel ^b   Reed, Nick ^a   Stevens, Alan ^a   Burnett, Gary ^c  

^a TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD VEHICLES; PLATOON OF VEHICLES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL METHODS; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; TIME HEADWAY; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84880222437     PISSN: 1751956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-its.2012.0156     Document Type: Article

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